\documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{amsmath,mathrsfs,bbm} \usepackage{amssymb} \textwidth=4.825in \overfullrule=0pt \thispagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \noindent % % {\bf Anders Sune Pedersen} % % \medskip \noindent % % {\bf Complete and Almost Complete Minors in Double-Critical $8$-Chromatic Graphs} % % \vskip 5mm \noindent % % % % A connected $k$-chromatic graph $G$ is said to be {\it double-critical} if for all edges $uv$ of $G$ the graph $G - u - v$ is $(k-2)$-colourable. A longstanding conjecture of Erd\H{o}s and Lov\'asz states that the complete graphs are the only double-critical graphs. Kawarabayashi, Pedersen and Toft [\emph{Electron.\ J.\ Combin.}, 17(1): Research Paper 87, 2010] proved that every double-critical $k$-chromatic graph with $k \leq 7$ contains a $K_k$ minor. It remains unknown whether an arbitrary double-critical $8$-chromatic graph contains a $K_8$ minor, but in this paper we prove that any double-critical $8$-chromatic contains a minor isomorphic to $K_8$ with at most one edge missing. In addition, we observe that any double-critical $8$-chromatic graph with minimum degree different from $10$ and $11$ contains a $K_8$ minor. \end{document} .